If you have a hd IRiver there are links to linux software that can rebuild the IRiver player database that controlls that which shows in the menus. I could not get the python version to work, but iriverdb works fine.

where 4102 and 1119 are the components of the USB id of the device (which will be different for the Zen Touch Photo). The lsusb command may be of some help in determining the USB id (assuming you have connected the device to your computer!).

]]>2006-03-24T13:31:59+00:002006-03-24T13:31:59+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19813#p19813I used to use Kzenexplorer to upload files....any ideas how I can use this libmtp to do the same???

]]>2006-03-24T13:24:41+00:002006-03-24T13:24:41+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19812#p19812I hit a snag using gphoto2 with the T30 - once a certain amount of data had been transferred to the device, gphoto2 refused to transfer any more, or even list the contents. I found the solution here, which is to patch libgphoto2-2.1.99 thus: change

#define PTP_USB_BULK_HS_MAX_PACKET_LEN512

in libgphoto2-2.1.99/camlibs/ptp2/ptp.h to

#define PTP_USB_BULK_HS_MAX_PACKET_LEN4096

(and recompile, of course). Now my T30's full to the brim and I'm happy.

]]>2006-03-24T13:11:54+00:002006-03-24T13:11:54+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19810#p19810Statistics: Posted by GMorgan — Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:11 pm
]]>2006-03-24T13:04:51+00:002006-03-24T13:04:51+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19808#p19808http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/ but is the early stages. Some of the functionality works though, and I think they are planning to make it work with Gnomad2

]]>2006-03-23T22:42:15+00:002006-03-23T22:42:15+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19750#p19750Well they didn't mention either time the iAudio M5 and M5L (L for Large Battery!). This is 20 Gig device which, as well as the usual MP3, can do OGG and FLAC! And you do really notice the difference in Sound Quality if you turn the default OGG compression to Quality Level 4, which makes its files similar in size to MP3.

It's a real top quality piece of work, with UMS, and superior sound (provided you switch out all the gadgets and use decent phones).

]]>2006-03-22T14:25:05+00:002006-03-22T14:25:05+00:00http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2760&p=19556#p19556iriver T30 a couple of days ago. It's small, it's light, it has 1GB of memory, and it plays ogg vorbis, so why not? Bloke in the shop assured me it works as a UMS (USB mass storage) device, so I thought "no problem using it with Linux, then" and shelled out me hard-earned.

UMS device my ar^H^H foot! Apparently iriver's latest devices, unlike most other portable MP3 players around these days, use a protocol called MTP, which requires Windows Media Player 10 on Windows XP in order to be usable.

Now, that said, all is not lost. It turns out that MTP is a derivative of/similar enough to PTP2 - the protocol used by some digital cameras - that you can use gphoto2 to access files on the device. Typing

(for example) is not the most convenient way to interact with the device, but it does mean you're a bash script front-end or two away from transferring music with little fuss.

However, you will need libgphoto2-2.1.99 (the latest development version) in order for gphoto2 to recognise the iriver T30, and I've found data transfers to be a bit temperamental. Sometimes you will see error messages even though everything appears to have tranferred OK, and sometimes the transfers just don't work at all.

Anyway, misery loves company, and it would seem that I'm not the only one a tad peeved at iriver's senseless MTP-only policy. Oddly enough, the T30 is available as a UMS device in Asia and Australia (but not in Europe or North America ), and so converting your T30 from MTP to UMS is just a matter of using some hacked firmware from Asia/Australia. If you want to try this, go to http://www.mtp-ums.net for details. No doubt such a procedure would void your warranty, but many people have reported success.